Lake Oswego converting streetlights to LEDs
Lake Oswego plans to convert thousands of streetlights to LEDs in the next five years.
Society43 teams with NBA
Portland sunglasses company Society43 launched a partnership with the National Basketball Association.
WalMart to announce three U.S. manufacturing projects
Reuters: The move is part of the company’s previously announced pledge to buy an additional $50 billion in U.S.-made products over the next decade.
FAA expands airline mode
CNN: FAA will allow most electronic device use throughout flights.
The thin ice of media innovation
Having lots of digital edges, having many ways in for readers and users to find and consume stories, is a problem that newspapers have struggled to manage. Local television has been spared much of the disruption, until now.
Renowned PSU planner, wife, die in car crash
Nohad Toulan, 81, and his wife Dirce Angelina Moroni Toulan, 78, were key figures in Portand’s modern urban development.
Sibelius ‘sorry’ over health care woes
BBC: President Barack Obama’s embattled health secretary has apologized to the American people over the botched rollout of his healthcare law’s insurance marketplace.
U.S. spies listened to pope
Reuters: An Italian magazine said on Wednesday that a United States spy agency had eavesdropped on Vatican phone calls.
Foreclosure mediation program ramps up
The program requires the state’s large lenders to offer a meeting with homeowners before they can foreclose.
Cover Oregon problems could disrupt insurance coverage
Oregon’s problem-plagued online health insurance marketplace has failed to enroll a single person.